title: Metachronous melanoma in breast reconstruction patients.
abstract: The incidence and mortality due to malignant melanoma has increased three- to four-fold across males and females in England and Wales over the past thirty years. Ninety percent of patients with primary melanoma have no clinical evidence of lymphadenopathy at presentation. In this paper we describe our management of impalpable axillary melanoma deposits in a patient with a pedicled latissimus dorsi (LD) flap reconstruction to the ipsilateral breast. No such case has been previously described in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Melanoma and Skin Cancer Unit (MASCU), Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead RH19 3DZ, United Kingdom. sarita@london.com
authors.forename: Sarita V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Vamadeva
authors.forename: Simon P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Mackey
authors.forename: Martin E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Paul E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Banwell
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001365:Axilla; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008206:Lymphatic Diseases; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D016462:Mammaplasty; D008408:Mastectomy; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013524:Surgical Flaps